The Czech lower house on Thursday rejected a government proposal to extend the state of emergency beyond February 14, despite the worsening coronavirus epidemic in some regions. The decision will effectively end the validity of the restrictions in p...

President’s chancellor accused of damaging EU's financial interests

Germany to reinstate border controls with Czech Republic

State of emergency to end on February 14

Large segment of Czechs disregard recommended COVID-19 precautions; Brno launches pilot project to house seniors alongside kindergartens; Interview with Czech anthropologist Zdenka Sokolíčková who is studying how local people perceive the effec...

Despite recommendations, 25 percent of Czechs with coronavirus symptoms choose to venture outside their homes, a new survey initiated by the World Health Organisation in Europe indicates. Close to a half believe that the pandemic is largely a media ...

Brno, the second-largest Czech city, has launched a pilot project to bring seniors and kindergarten children together in one building. Studies show similar initiatives have greatly improved the mental health and physical wellbeing of the elderly, wh...

Many people in the Czech Republic have become accustomed to working from home due to the coronavirus situation. With many offices empty, some companies have become subletting space – and offering lower rents and other incentives, Hospodářské no...

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Constitutional Court head Rychetsky tightlipped on president’s decision to withhold award

Death of terminally ill patient investigated in connection with Covid vaccine

Wednesday brings third highest daily increase of Covid cases in three weeks

EU lists Czech blue poppy in protected geographical indication (PGI) register

Lower house debating extending state of emergency

Three districts under lockdown

Bavaria tightens conditions for Czech cross-border workers

News, Czech film Charlatan on shortlist for Best International Film in Academy Awards, new website celebrates legacy of Sir Nicholas Winton, Prague's Jewish Quarter

The Czech film Charlatan, a biographical drama about a controversial healer in communist-era Czechoslovakia, directed by Agnieszka Holland, has made the shortlist of 15 films in the running for Best International Film in this year’s Academy Award...

Tennis - Australian Open: Kvitová out, Vondroušová qualifies for third round

President Zeman in Poland to mark 30th anniversary of Visegrád Group

PM Babiš: Czechia will not administer Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine before EU approval, but may buy doses

A freshly launched website celebrates the legacy of Sir Nicholas Winton, who in 1939 saved 669 mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia by helping them get to his native UK. The site showcases a wealth of material from the Sir Nicholas Winton Memo...

Poll: Majority favour Constitutional Court move to scrap aspect of proportional voting system

AAA Auto plans to expand used car sales to Western Europe

Ex-Central Bohemia governor David Rath to work as a prison doctor while an inmate

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State of emergency talks continue; school closures, compensation sticking points

Football: Slavia Prague permitted to play Europa League match vs Leicester City at home

Covid-19: new cases exceeds 10,000 per day for first time since mid-January

Blatný: No use of unapproved Sputnik V as long as I am minister

Czech film Charlatan makes Oscars shortlist

Zeman and other V4 presidents mark 30 years of cooperation at Poland summit

ČTU students’ open-source balancing robot, Erasmus+ in the coronavirus era, fascinating book on a Prague Jewish family at the brink of WWII

More snow due in southeast, freezing conditions expected around state

The EU’s Erasmus+ is a popular study abroad programme which gives hundreds of thousands of students every year the opportunity to study, or gain work experience in another EU member state. The programme is also very popular among Czech students, w...

Babiš to discuss vaccinations in Serbia, user of Sputnik V

Czech Republic sending Covid aid to Moldova and Peru

Karolína Plíšková reaches second round at Australian Open

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2020 tourism numbers down by half

Parties begin discussing electoral law changes

Monday Covid numbers up on same day last week

Graduate students at the Czech Technical University in Prague have developed a balancing robot, which they dubbed “SK8O” (Skate-O). Thanks to its relatively low price (50,000 Czech crowns) and open-source design, the device can be built in schoo...

Government approves quarantine payments as stay-home incentive

Ministers seek state of emergency extension to mid-March

Stadiums are currently closed in the Czech Republic. This has led many fans to look for alternative ways in which to follow their team's performances. Bohemians 1905, which boasts one of the most loyal and seemingly innovative fanbases, saw its sup...

News, EU vaccine strategy, Czech Film Critics’ Awards, Jakub Hlávka, a young Czech academic focused on health policy who’s building an impressive career in the US

An unprecedented joint procurement initiative led by Brussels to secure coronavirus vaccines and make them equally available to all 27 EU member states has fallen well short of the mark. To date, just over 3 percent of the bloc’s population of 450...

Director Bohdan Sláma’s Shadow Country (Krajina ve stínu) won the 2020 annual Czech Film Critics’ Awards on Saturday. The black and white film which depicts life in a Czech border village during the most tumultuous period in twentieth century ...

Marked fall in new apartment construction recorded in 2020

Jewish Museum chief slams minister over Covid-WWII comparison

Petra Kvitová advances at Australian Open

The young US-based Czech academic Jakub Hlávka is an expert on health policy, working on government projects focused on the Covid pandemic as well as studying the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease. But as we shall hear, the high-flyer also has exp...

No change in Covid risk index or reproduction number

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Heavy snow causes transport problems

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Czech Senate shows support for Belarus opposition

Risk index at 71, reproduction number increases

Sláma’s Shadow Country wins at Czech Film Critics’ Awards

Czech leaders mull antigen tests at schools

Prague and Central Bohemia leaders against restrictions on movement

Hamáček: Pubs that breach Covid rules could face year’s closure

Global soccer great Josef Masopust, a World Cup runner-up with Czechoslovakia and the first Czech recipient of the Ballon d’Or, was born on 9 February 1931.

Ida Kelarová is a singer, musician and choirmaster, who performs some of the best Romany music to come out of the Czech Republic. On the occasion of Ida’s 65th birthday we are offering you some of the best of Ida Kellarová’s music.

Interview with ballet dancer Miřenka Čechova, history of Rudolfinum concert hall

Insurance-covered Covid testing at firms may start this month

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2020 Czech TV audiences highest in decades

Snow and temperatures as low as -15C due next week

Communists confirm decision to cease supporting state of emergency

Registered Covid deaths in CR pass 17,000 mark

AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine arrives in CR

Czech crown at highest level against Euro since March

Defence Ministry fined CZK 550mn for errors in Bell helicopter contract

Finance Ministry to propose again tapping EBRD loans, to speed economy recovery

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In a televised address to the public on Thursday, Czech Health Minister Jan Blatný called on Czechs to maintain discipline and not break coronavirus rules in order to help contain the coronavirus epidemic. He also raised the seriousness of the more...

The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra is currently recording the world premiere of a symphony written by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher, one of the world’s most renowned contemporary musicians. The title of the symphony,  A Line above the Sky, refers...

Unemployment in the Czech Republic rose to 4.3 percent in January, up from 4 percent in December, according to data released by the Czech Labour Office on Friday. A month-on-month increase was recorded in all 77 of the country’s districts in Janua...

PM Babiš warns of healthcare system ‘collapse’ if state of emergency not extended

Freight trains collide in Zlín region, damage estimated at CZK 31.1 mn

Basketball: Czech women face Danes on Saturday in final European Championship qualifier

Labour Office: unemployment hit 4.3 pct in January, up 1.2 pp in annual terms

Škoda Transportation Group to deliver another 23 trams to Helsinki

Covid-19: first 20,000 AstraZenka vaccine doses arrive in Czech Republic on Saturday

A new book by Czech anthropologist Kateřina Mildnerová called ‘Namibian Czechs’ maps a fascinating and little known chapter in Czechoslovakia’s history. In 1985, the communist authorities enabled 56 children of Namibian war refugees to live ...

News, health minister warns Covid situation is bad, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra recording symphony by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher, story of Czech-Namibian children focus of new book

Stach and Koubský receive Peroutka Prize

Czech Covid numbers largely unchanged

Blatný: Strict Covid measures no longer working

News, court ruling on election law, assistance dogs, one-man workshop makes perfume bottles for Europe, US, Czech freediver aims to set new record swimming under ice

Pomocné tlapky, a non-profit group that breeds, trains and hands over assistance dogs to people with disabilities, celebrates its twentieth anniversary this week. When established back in February 2001, it was the first such organisation in the Cze...

The Constitutional Court on Wednesday issued a verdict invalidating articles of the election law that it said discriminated against small parties. In future, blocs of parties running together will need to gain only  5 percent of the vote to enter t...

Hundreds suspect Covid vaccine side effects

Blatný rules out transfer of Cheb patients to Germany

Police investigate care home vaccine deaths online lie

At the beginning of the 20th century, glass and especially glass perfume bottles made by small local craftsmen in Josefuv Důl in the Jizera Mountains, generated a lot of interest, selling not only in the fashion capitals of Europe but overseas as w...

David Vencl, a freediver from Teplice, will attempt to break the Guinness world record for the longest swim under ice this month. The current record stands at 76,2 meters, and Vencl says that he aims to swim 80, which comes to about 1 minute and 40 ...

Judge: Voting can go ahead even if legislators haven’t ratified change

New daily Covid cases jump by over 1,000 week-on-week

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Vrba takes reigns at Sparta Prague

The Veverkas invented a revolutionary plough in 1827 that cut, lifted and turned the soil in one go.

Babiš attacks Constutional Court over electoral law ruling

Constitutional Court repeals electoral law clauses favouring big parties; New campaign celebrates women in science; Czech Made, episode 2: the Veverkas' ‘Ruchadlo’ plough

The political landscape in the Czech Republic is set to shift immensely. The Constitutional Court on Wednesday announced it has annulled aspects of electoral law favouring bigger political parties, including the distribution of seats and thresholds ...

A new campaign by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences celebrates women in science, but it also points out to the fact that Czech female scientists are not equally represented. The official hashtag of the campaign, launched on...

Babiš to discuss Russian vaccine on Budapest visit

Hamáček: 35 British variant Covid cases detected in CR to date

Top court hands advantage to coalitions standing in general elections

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Czech Republic passes 1 million known Covid cases mark

The Veverka cousins invented a revolutionary plough in 1827 known as the ‘Ruchadlo’, which cut, lifted and turned soil upside down by means of a curved plate. So why weren’t they better known outside of Bohemia? Find out in the latest edition ...

Czech Republic to acquire anti-Covid drug Bamlan

Czech Republic calling for Navalny’s immediate release

Constitutional Court rejects petition against set term of general elections

Governor of South Moravia claims general practitioners not allowed to inoculate against Covid-19

Government suspends VAT in bid to encourage use of respirators; Thousands join ‘Dry February’ campaign; New long-distance hiking trail crosses Czechia from west to east

The Czech economy experienced the biggest drop in the history of the independent Czech Republic, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday. According to a fresh estimate by the Czech Statistics Office, the country’s Gross Domestic Product fell by ...